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The first stages of work are under way: In Delhi police now offer free 10-day self-defense programs for women, and they've fanned out through the city to give "doorstep training" to larger groups. In the southern state of Kerala, all-female police units, the Pink Police, have been assembled to patrol the streets and respond to crisis calls from women.
I confess to a certain ambivalence about all this. Government-arranged gender segregation? Is this the only way to begin making women as comfortable as men in public spaces? But then I see the hashtag campaigns of Indian women too, and am cheered: #TakeBackTheNight, a global effort that banded audacious women in India to walk outside together after dark. #MeetToSleep, which organized 600 women across the country last year to safely spend a night sleeping outdoors, as Indian men often like to do.
我承认，对于这一切，我的内心有些矛盾。政府安排的性别隔离？这是让女性能够在公共场所像男性一样自在行动的唯一方法吗？但之后我又看见印度女性打出的活动口号标签，因而感到欣慰：“夺回黑夜”是一场全球范围的活动，将勇敢的印度女性联合起来，在夜里一起外出。“睡眠集会”活动去年在全国组织了六百名女性，安全地在户外度过一晚，就像印度男性常常喜欢做的那样。
